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One of the awesome things about HELP-Salone’s approach to livelihood development is that they give truly holistic complementary training to everyone that they support with micro financial services. This means that alongside the Street Business training,our service users learn about gender rights,sexual health,hygiene and other life skills,including literacy. At first glance,[...] When I first was offered this internship,I was a bit torn. Personally,I thought every kid should stay in school until they finished what is the equivalent of grade 12 in Canada,and what Street Kids does it teach youth that are street involved and usually not a part of the traditional education system [...] Here in Ethiopia,we have spent the past week designing and testing a standardized quantitative questionnaire that will be integrated into the new SKI curriculum as a prerequisite for implementation. It was an extremely intense week:full of meetings all-day;everyday,and plenty of site visits. Though intensive,I feel happy to have taken part [...] Debre Berhan methodologically confounds. No place is as cold (dark side of the moon) and as hot (Ethiopia/Danakil Depression) than Debre Berhan,Ethiopia. I go to bed in long johns (rainbow stripped) and wake up sweating through my shirt,reaching manically for the bottled water on my table. I sat down on a bag (50kgs) [...] Click on this link to view Entrepreneurship Training Make a Better World Kenya (MABWOK) is a Street Kid’s International partner based in Mukuru slum,Nairobi,Kenya. The last few weeks have been quite the experience,as we embarked on a long awaited set of trips to finally provide beneficiaries of the ‘Linking Rural Youth with Knowledge and Opportunity through Micro-Enterprise’ project with finance in order for them to begin to engage in entrepreneurship in an effort [...] How do kids become street kids? Within the international development realm,we talk about systemic poverty,structural injustice,and lack of opportunities. Within the child protection realm,maybe it’s the failure of national systems to keep children safe – allowing abuse in educational institutions,unrecognized child rights in the legal system,and lack of child [...] | |||||
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